The Toronto International Film Festival is set to announce part of its lineup Tuesday. The 10-day affair is known for premiering Oscar favourites, like last year’s Best Picture winner The Shape of Water.

In fact, over the past 10 years, the Oscars’ biggest trophy has gone to nine movies that first unspooled at TIFF, which began life in 1976 as the Festival of Festivals.

This year’s awards season was dominated by films that Toronto audiences were among the first to see, including Lady Bird; Call Me By Your Name; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Darkest Hour; I, Tonya and Roman J. Israel, Esq.

And of course, there’s the celeb factor. Stars love it here. Last year, George Clooney gabbed with a handful of journalists asking for restaurant recommendations (we suggested Ivan Reitman’s Montecito). The new dad was a bachelor for the weekend as he brought his crime comedy Suburbicon to town and when he did get some downtime, there he was glad-handing and rubbing shoulders with us regular folk at Patria on King West.

Other stars who set camera flashes ablaze last September included Jennifer Lawrence (mother!), Lady Gaga (Five Foot Two), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Current War), Angelina Jolie (First They Killed My Father) and many, many more.

So with the star wattage at TIFF getting brighter with each passing year, we take a look at our crystal ball and make some predictions for films and celebs you might see walking the red carpet this fall.

1. A Star is Born: Bradley Cooper’s remake of the 1937 romantic-drama features himself as a country singer-songwriter struggling with alcoholism until he meets Lady Gaga’s character, Ally. They fall in love, but this is the movies – we know their future is anything but certain. The cinema classic has been remade twice before, including a 1954 version with Judy Garland, and a 1976 rock musical that featured Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Cooper and Gaga are premiering the film first at the 75th Venice Film Festival, so expect it to screen here over TIFF’s opening weekend.

2. First Man: Writer-director Damien Chazelle is reuniting with Ryan Gosling for First Man, an account of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Chazelle’s La La Land had its Canadian premiere at TIFF in 2016 en route to winning six Oscars, including Best Director and Best Actress (for Emma Stone). First Man is set to open Venice, but Chazelle is a big fan of TIFF (he told the crowd at the premiere of La La Land that he used to come to the film fest as a fan when he dreamed of becoming a director) so a screening in Toronto is pretty much guaranteed.

3. Bohemian Rhapsody: Rami Malek stars as Freddie Mercury in this long-awaited biopic about the Queen frontman, who died of AIDS in 1991. The film, scripted by The Theory of Everything Oscar nominee Anthony McCarten, follows Mercury’s rise from a budding pop hopeful to global superstar.

4. Halloween: One of the most popular programs at TIFF is Midnight Madness, which highlights action thrillers and horror titles. With Michael Meyers set to kill again, Halloween – a direct sequel to the 1978 original that starred Jamie Lee Curtis – would be a great fit among this year’s titles. Co-written by funnyman Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down) and festival fave David Gordon, it’s a fresh take on the Halloween franchise. “We came up with a story that we thought was worthy of following that classic horror film and we went and pitched it to John Carpenter and he dug it,” McBride told the Sun in an interview. “He’s excited by it and he’s given us his seal of approval.”

5. Suspiria: Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming remake of Dario Argento’s supernatural horror film Suspiria counts Quentin Tarantino among its early supporters. According to the Call Me By Your Name director, QT saw an early screening and he was “enthusiastic about it – in the end, he was crying and hugged me.” The film stars Dakota Johnson as a young ballet dancer, who joins a renown dance academy only to discover that there are dark secrets within.

6. White Boy Rick: Based on the true story of a drug dealing 14-year-old (newcomer Richie Merritt) who became the youngest informant in FBI history. Matthew McConaughey co-stars as the boy’s stern father.

Other possible films headed to TIFF include Montreal superstar Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan; Mowgli (which is Andy Serkis’ darker take on The Jungle Book); Eli Roth’s family-friendly The House With a Clock on Its Walls; Timothee Chalamet as a struggling meth addict in Beautiful Boy; Melissa McCarthy’s Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which finds her playing a rare dramatic role as a one-time celebrity biographer turned literary forger; and Mary, Queen of Scots, featuring Saoirse Ronan portraying the young monarch and Margot Robbie as her rival cousin Queen Elizabeth I.

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